Beginning Blends and Digraphs
http://www.FirstStepReading.com -Consonant Blends are two Consonant sounds put together. Consonants are all the letters in the Upper and Lowercase Alphabet except the Letters: A, E, I, O, and U.
This video teaches your child how to blend two Consonants together. It also teaches Digraphs which are 2 Letters that make an original Sound like sh, ck, th, ng, qu, and ch.
The type of Consonant Blends taught in this video are Beginning Consonant Blends. Beginning Consonant Blends are when Consonant Blends come at the beginning of a word.
To practice the Beginning Consonant Blends there are Beginning Consonant Blend stories for your child to read in the Practice Reading Book 3 that correlate with the Beginning Consonant Blend words addressed in the videos (Practice Reading Book 3 Pages: 1-11).
For additional practice with Beginning Consonant Blends there are printable Consonant Blend Flashcards. With these Flashcards your child can read the various Beginning Consonant Blends and add Consonants Blends to Word Endings to make Beginning Consonant Blend Words (Beginning Consonant Blend Flashcards).
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Step To Teach Your Child to READ!!!
1. Letter Identification
2. Letter Sounds
3. 2 Letter Blending
4. 3 Letter Blending (Phonics Word Families CVC Words)
5. Sight words Memorization (Practice Sight words throughout the Learn to Read Process)
6. What is a Vowel
7. Long Vowel Words (Long Vowel Words Families)
Vowel Consonant Vowel (vcv) or Vowel Vowel (VV)
8. Digraphs (2 Letters that make 1 Sound)
9. Irregular Letter Sound Combinations
10. Blends (2 letters that make two sounds blended together)
11. Controlled R Words (ar, or, er/ur/ir)